William bradley eeaves



(No Model.)

W. B. R EAVES.

WASHING MACHINE.

' No. 348,776. Patented Sept. '7, 1886.

INVENTOR i WITNESSES:

ATTORNEYS.

N. PETERS Phnlu-Lilhographnr. Washington. D: C.

IINiT D STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IVILLIAM BRADLEY REAVES, OF FRIARS POINT, MISSISSIPPI, ASSIGNOR OF ONEI-IALF TO J. V. CROWLEY, OF SAME PLACE.

WASHING-MACHINE.

fi ATIoN forming part; of Letters Patent No. 348,776, dated September 7, 1886.

Application filed February 24, 1886. Serial No.193,077. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM BRADLEY REAVES, of Friars Point, in the county of Ooahoma and State of Mississippi, have invented a new and useful Improvement in t ashing-Machines, of which the following is a description.

This invention is an improved washingmachine; and it consists in certain novel cou- IO structions and combinations of parts, whereby the clothing will be cleansed without any me chanical friction thereof, all of which will be described. In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective I5 View of my machine. Fig. 2 is a partial longitudinal section thereof. Fig. 3 is a detail section, enlarged, of the plunger and a portion of its rod.

The cylinder A may be formed of tin, zinc,

' or other suitable material. It is provided with thimbles 1 and 2 for the lower end of the leversupporting standard 13, which may be remov' ably secured therein, audit also hasa thimble,

3, to facilitate the attachment of handle-rod O,

by which the cylinder maybe placed and held in and removed from the water in the operation of washing.

Fixed to the cylinder near its lower endis a skirt, D, which flares outwardly toward its lower end. This skirt encircles and extends be low the lower end of the cylinder, and serves to increase the surface of clothing acted on at each operation ofv the plunger, presently described. This skirt also enlarges the base of 3 5 and prevents the machine from being top heavy, and by extending beyond the lower end of the cylinder enables the compressed air to operate between it and such cylinder, and thus act upon all the clothing embraced by the flaring skirt.

The plunger or piston E operates in cylinder A, andis provided with a rod, F, by which the plunger may be reciprocated. This rod is by preference connected with the lever G,

5 pivoted to the standard 13. The plunger is formed with upper and lower sections, 4 and 5. At itslower end the rod F is formed with a tenon, f, providing shoulder 6. The upper section, 4, is formed with a ccntralsauce'r- 5o shaped portion and a flat rim-flange. From the center or crown of central portion is projected a tubular portion, 7, which surrounds at one end an opening in section 4, and abuts at its opposite end against shoulder 6. Section 5 is also formed with a central saucer-shaped portion, having a tubular portion, 8, which fits up in tube 7 around tenon f. The sections 4 and 5, with the packing presently described, are secured to the rod by a screw, H, passed through a washer, I, and in- 69 to the end of the plunger-rod. To prevent this screw H from coming in contact with the clothing being washed, and also to prevent the plunger from being forced out of the lower end of the cylinder, I provide the lower section of 6 the plunger with a depending tubular extension,J, which encircles the securing-screw and projects below the same. By depending below the plunger this extension J, as will be seen, by contact with the clothing, prevents 70 said plunger from being forced entirely out of the lower end of the cylinder in the operation of the machine.

Thepacking K is secured between the plunger-sections 4 and 5, and may be made of rubher, heavy cotton goods, or other suitable material. It is preferred to form the packing of a number of thicknesses of cotton cut bias and longer than the circumference of the plungersections and drawn to the right size by a draw- 8c string, so that when the packing wears out the string may be loosened and the goods pulled out from between the two sections.

In operation it will be seen that the cylinder with the plunger raised is placed down in the water and rested on the clothing to be washed. The plunger is then depressed, forcing the hot suds through said clothing by atmospheric pressure, causing the dirt to disengage from the goods and enter into solution with the 0 water, avoiding all rubbing and the consequent wear and tear on the clothing. After the plunger is depressed the apparatus is raised from the water in ordento permit the cylinder to again fill with air, the plunger being raised, 5 when the operation before described is repeated.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is In awashingmachine, the combination,\vith Ioo projecting below the lowerend thereof, of the screw, and preventing the plunger from being [0 plunger-rod and the plunger provided with upforeed out of the lower end of the cylinder, per and lower sections, and having a seeuringsubstantially as set forth.

screw whereby to conneetit with the plunger- WILLIAM BRADLEY REAVE rod, the lower section of said plunger being provided with a degending tubular extension surrounding the fasteningscrew and serving XVitnesses:

G. B. CLARKE,

the cylinder and the skirt surrounding and to protect the clothing from the contact ofsaid l JULIUs ALLEN. 

